Once you include the OCO fund, then security-related spending is $915.1 billion. It's spread out among different agencies and budget categories, so you must add it all together. It includes: Defense Department
Public Health Emergency (PHE) contingency planning for naturally occurring or human created public health threats is a challenge. PHEs impacting the off-base military beneficiary population are low probability, high impact events. The Department of Defense is prepared to meet public health threats on...
Look, I realize that these are "civilian" agencies of our government, but the last time I checked, the "civilian" and "military/intelligence" arms were at least governed by the same set of folks whose responsibility it is to ensure that we, as citizens, are taken care of. This means t...
U.S. Military Spending The War on Terror and related defense spending have added trillions to the national debt since 2001. That includes increases to the budgets of the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Overseas Contingency Operations. Unfortunately, it's difficult to...
“murderers” on one side and a law-abiding military power on the other. That’s the clash of civilizations that we’re being asked to buy into in much of the US/UK media. Let’s be loud and clear: urban warfare such as in Gaza produces a high-visibility challenge tothe law of ...
From a war-fighting perspective the most important step that we take going forward, and the one that we need to do the quickest, is to establish a US Space Command as a combatant commander. The Air Force is the US military branch that currently has responsibility for space....
Availability of the GPS signal concerned some users, particularly outside of North America, while the GPS infrastructure that was originally designed for military use migrated into civilian applications. Presently, GPS applications are so widely spread that the long-term viability of GPS is not ...
In recent years, IoT technology has received significant attention in the healthcare domain where it plays an important role in different phases of various infectious diseases [20]. In the current pandemic, as the contingency of COVID-19 is high, there is an essential need for patients to be...
[92] andtactical Cloudlets[93] can offer significant benefits in hostile environment (e.g. military operations) as they are deployed in close proximity and can be placed inside vehicles for portability, ensuring continuous service, perform data filtering, reduces information leakage and support ...
conflict, the role of military trucks quickly evolved to meet the threat with support from Overseas Contingency Operations funding. The current economic climate coupled with an excess of tactical wheeled vehicle capability means the current fleet is not affordable. The 2012 release of the US Army[...